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Silicon Valley's unlikely new favorite cause: Gov. Christie
The Philadelphia InquirerThe hottest new trend in Silicon Valley isn't inventing a gadget, developing an app, or investing in an IPO. It's giving to the governor of New Jersey. Gov. Christie has collected $289,150 from those involved in California's technology industry, an...Tags: PayPal, Inc., Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Reid Hoffman, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Evolving markets: Charleston has surge of digital media business
The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.They come in all shapes and sizes, claiming a dizzying variety of capabilities. They date back decades, or just a year or two. And when you think there couldn't possibly be much more than 50 marketing agencies in this relatively small town, another one...Tags: Charleston, Restraint of Trade, Corporate Crime, Sales, Advertising
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Talent Agencies Increasingly Turning into Investors
VarietyCAA made a lot of money off of a single deal late last year, but it wasn’t from landing one of its stars a big role or packaging the next film franchise. Instead, the agency sold jeans — $300 million worth of them — when it unloaded its stake in...Tags: Go Daddy Group Inc., Private Equity, Entertainment, Economy, Business and Finance, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Bringing the casino to the couch: Internet poised to reinvent the gambling experience for many
Associated PressATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With legal gambling now moving beyond the casinos and onto the Internet, the industry is bracing for the most far-reaching changes in its history. A Las Vegas firm, Ultimate Gaming, on Tuesday became the first in the U.S....Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Problem Gambling, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Entertainment
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
SACRAMENTO — Social network sites such as Facebook would be required to remove personal information about minors when asked to do so by their parents under a measure approved by state senators Thursday. Separately, the lawmakers voted to allow...
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California Senate approves protections for minors on Internet
Despite opposition from Internet firms including Facebook and Google, the California Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would require social networking sites to remove identifying information about teens and younger children from their pages...
Tags: Ellen M Corbett, Punishment, Joel Anderson, Fines, Personal Data Collection
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'Mortal Kombat' creator Ed Boon back with DC superhero game
Ed Boon was pulling punches. I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game...
Tags: Sony Corp., Rogers Park, Lobbying, PlayStation, Entertainment
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The day ahead in business April 24
Reports: MBA mortgage index for week ended April 20, 6 a.m.; Durable goods orders for March, 7:30 a.m.; Crude inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Boeing Co., First Midwest Bancorp Inc., Horace Mann Educators Corp., Morningstar...
Tags: Avery Dennison Corporation, Automotive Equipment, Boeing Co., Horace Mann Educators Corporation, Lilly Eli & Co
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San Jose Mercury News Mike Cassidy column
San Jose Mercury NewsI'm a sucker for the annual SV150. It's Silicon Valley's report card, an annual performance review, a bucketful of numbers that begins to answer the questions: Are we up? Are we down? Who's in? Who's out? More than that, the SV150 provides empirical...Tags: PayPal, Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc, SunPower Corp., Computer Hardware, Federal Communications Commission
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Mark Zuckerberg's foray into politics is delayed by leaked memo
SAN FRANCISCO -- In Silicon Valley, start-ups launch in beta all the time and work out the kinks as they go. Apparently that approach doesn't work as well in Washington. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new political advocacy start-up hasn't even...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Joe Green, Lobbying, Square, Inc., Conservation
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Not all fun and (video) games
Big Huge Games in Timonium closed last May, taking nearly 100 jobs with it. Nine months later, a local studio that was launched from the ashes of the video game-maker shut down, too. And Zynga, which created FarmVille and Words with Friends, closed its...
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Nick D'Aloisio, 17, suddenly rich, famous after Yahoo buys Summly
SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app to Yahoo Inc. for close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires. It'...
Tags: Telecommunication Service, Stephen Fry, Li Ka-shing, Yahoo! Inc., Media Industry
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